Collaborative Research

Federal Resources

Researchers
increasingly collaborate with colleagues who have the expertise and/or
resources needed to carry out a particular project. Collaborations can
be as simple as one researcher sharing reagents or techniques with
another researcher. They can be as complex as multi-centered clinical
trials that involve academic research centers, private hospitals, and
for-profit companies studying thousands of patients in different states
or even countries.

Any project that has more than one
person working on it requires some collaboration, i.e., working
together. In most projects, however, one person, commonly called the
Principal Investigator, is in charge. Others work under the
Principal Investigator's direction.